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It may be counting chickens, but if the godaddy forwarding kicks in within the next few hours fortheloveofgoditsmascarpone.com will be the internet’s most recent “Single Serving Site“. I’m rusty, rusty but in the last 72 minutes to starting to write this post: Registered fortheloveofgoditsmascarpone.com at godaddy.com Realized they have less free things than they used […]

I’m just copying and pasting the review of Down and Out in The Magic Kingdom over here to bluefacedpixie and I note that the links I was complaining about before are now fixed – absolute links to goodreads pages as opposed to relative links to non-existent bluefacedpixie pages. No word as to why, and no […]

Ok, so I’ve been cross-posting goodreads.com book reviews here for a bit using their “paste into your blog” feature. Tonight I discovered it does “relative” links for review links. This means nothing for the non-geeks here, but if you look at my last review (for Spin) and click on the *Execution Channel* link…. it won’t […]

Tried out bing! today as an alternative to google. When I searched for the machaggis.net blogs bing faithfully returned them with a lot of spam/SEO optimized crap that looks like it’s inserted into bluefacedpixie and planetdanika. Yup, somewhere along the line I’ve been hacked. I’ve let the robotic logins slide for waaay too long, relying […]

Re-treading old ground, perhaps, but we’ve been unavailable some sometime today and I bet you didn’t notice. In the world of geek, machaggis.net moved hosting providers. We left luxsci.com and moved to sustainablewebsites.com. What this means for machaggis.net: no top page on machaggis.net as I’ve only moved the blogs the blogs are all working (tell […]

24th Jan 08: Wee Free Men, originally uploaded by machaggis. I bailed on Accelerando after slogging at it for a couple of eternities (having a sabbatical for Last Light of the Sun in the process). I started Wee Free Men with a joy that can only come of light hearted Terry Pratchett-expectation. It was a […]

Well, it had to happen. I’ve been spending time fixing spam issues on some of my little websites and have also ran into an email spam problem. First of all, the website issues. From the turn of the year I noticed a large spike in comment spam hitting ballardcornerspark.org. This isn’t really that surprising – […]

I’ve indirectly mentioned Ballard Corners Park before, in a photo per day in June. It’s now time, however, to throw my hat (and heart) in the ring and do the full on “nothing-comes-for-free-in-America-isn’t-neighbourhood-fund-raising-a-great-thing” thing. I live in Ballard (inballard, wikipedia), it’s a nice little community but by a freak of its past it’s short of […]

…but if you jump over to planetdanika using Safari (on a Mac) then the header “planetdanika” has a nice shadow to it. This makes it stand out when the white header is on a bright photo background. A lovely touch brought about with this one line: #header { text-shadow: #111111 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em } There’s […]